Last spring, while millions of American students were bubbling in answers to multiple-choice questions on the ubiquitous tests that determine school and teacher ratings, student promotions, graduation, and college admissions, some students were meeting a higher standard. At the Urban Academy, a second chance high school in New York City that is part of the New York Performance Standards Consortium, Gemma Venuti completed the set of research papers that were part of her graduation portfolio — and defended them before a committee of teachers, students, and experts from outside the school.

Patrice Bucci's insight:

Anything by Linda Darling Hammond is well thought out advice... particularly here...

Schools have the key to breaking the shackles of teacher assessment – but now teachers need to be brave enough to introduce their own post-levels system, writes NAHT's James Bowen

Patrice Bucci's insight:

thoughtful post on the pervasive practices of assessment grounded in numbers only... we have to ask ourselves to reexamine our beliefs about assessment, what are we getting out of our assessment practices and how does it impact our teaching and student learning...

Below we’ve gathered 12 of what we consider ‘must-read’ articles about assessment. They purposely cover a variety of different angles, from purpose to function to assessment strategies. We could come up with another 12 tomorrow, and the next day, and so on, so we don’t intend for this to be an exhaustive (it’s only 12) list that is the final word on assessment. It is, rather, a good start. The list features TeachThought content, but the vast majority (8 of the 12) come from other sites and resources.

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